The Archive · 1899

YACHAN, SZECHUAN

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) — A. BONIN ARRIVES

The event of the month is the arrival of expected for long, and several days fixed M. Bonin from the West. After bein,

for his coming he is at last here, to the intense relief of the official mind, which had conjured up all kinds of fears, in which the Chinese were to suffer. It may be a case of conscience making cowards of the tardily wise officials, but anyhow the famous eller is here, much escorted by the local rathorities and the monster repuris of armies and so on have materialized in a hearty looking voyager, his interpreter, and "dozen Annamese soldiers, The travels of M. Bonin cover a very large aren of the little known country lying upon the Chinese Tibet border and many geographical puzzles are in a way to be solve

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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